How do you beat "slick" boxers?

[Earl-Hickey]

What's the antidote for "slickness"?

Is it possible to beat?

Is the only way to be "slicker"

[thuggery]

[FeFist]

High work rate, clinching/rough house tactics, setting traps.

[LeG00N]

Swarm them the way Castillo did when he beat Floyd.


also Marquez - Too Sharp

[Jack Napier]

walk them down constantly behind a jab, whether it lands or not
work the body to take the legs away
close the distance and work, don't go for power, just work

[SlySlickSmooth]

As mention by previous posters unless you truly possess the skill to outbox them definitively, you must outwork them and pressure them whether it takes 1 round or 12 rounds you can't let up.

You can't give them time to think.

Although, if your tactics at pressuring just aren't great enough you might just get made to look like a ****in amateur. Not all pressure/swarmer fighters fight the same and that's the key difference.

The one going against the slickster better watch out for check hooks and learn to cut off the ring before they step in there.

[S. Saddler 1310]

Swarm them the way Castillo did when he beat Floyd.

Castillo didn't swarm Mayweather. Castillo wasn't a swarmer. he was a practitioner of skilled aggression. he beat Mayweather (or should've gotten an official verdict over Mayweather) by cutting him off and herding him/nailing him down (as much as one could hope to herd or nail down a young Mayweather) with good footwork and a jab to set up the harder shots he selected (which landed mainly to the body). he wasn't wasting a ton of punches in there (although he would often miss due to Mayweather's reflexive brilliance), he was picking them and was relatively economical. his style was nearer that of a Chavez than a swarmer-type fighter (indeed, he was a sparring partner to JCC, which, with utmost respect to Castillo, is quite apropos in as far as measuring them against each other qualitatively, lol), although people do lazily refer to guys like Chavez Sr. and Castillo as swarmers, when really they're aggressive boxers (being a 'boxer' and retreating are not necessarily mutually inclusive). a swarmer, more than just a guy who pressures, is a guy who attempts to puts themself right in their opponent's face and overwhelm with volume.

[Weebler I]

Cut off the ring with good footwork.

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

I say smother them and make it ROUGH. Sort of like Mares did to Moreno. Gotta be smart while you do it tho. If that slickser got power he can make you pay.

Man it'd weird, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. I guess it depends on the skill level gap. Chavez Jr tried it vs Martinez and it definitely didn't work.

I'm not sure if Frampton - Kiko is a good example too. Cause Frampton is not really a slickster.


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[bojangles1987]

I see what you did there. Good thread.